Re: [tied] Re: Risoe fo the Feminine

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 32387
Date: 2004-04-29

> From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]

> What about the Albanian forms? IEW gives vido, vito, vidheze
> "Taube". EIEC gives vida "dove". I'm curious about the
> dental. vito < *h2wéit-? (Leiden is down again, so I can't
> check Demiraj).
>

Albanian form: vito {1} [f] (t)

Meaning: dove

Proto-Albanian: (a)uit-

Other Alb. forms: vidë [f] (g) `dove'; vit/d [interjection] {2} (g)

See also: avdosë

Page in Demiraj AE: 420

IE reconstruction: h2eui-(to-)

Meaning of the IE root: bird

Page in Pokorny: 86

Greek: αἰετός `eagle'

Other IE cognates: Bret. houad `duck'

Notes: {1} The auslaut derives from an exclamation particle (-)o, which also occurs as a grammatical characteristic of the Alb. vocative. {2} Call for pigeons.